EuroWire January 2007

handling & packaging equipment

Intelligent solutions fromWindak Windak AB – operating out of new offices in Stockholm, Sweden – offers a complete range of products for fully automatic packaging lines. The new offices will provide the company with larger facilities for product demonstration, assembly and final testing. The successful range of palletising equipment to the automotive industry will primarily be built at the new facility. Windak supplies the following range of equipment: Windak automatic coilers and spoolers : versatile and high output – largest range in the industry; fully automatic coilers – from max 360mm coil OD to max 1,000mm coil OD – seven different models; fully automatic spoolers – from 165mm-1,200mm spool flange diameter – five different models. • • •

The Windak DW32-S automatic spooler

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Packaging specialists E ngineering Future Automazione Flessibile – EFAF – is committed to providing innovative and reliable packaging lines to the international wire and cable industry. EFAF manufactures five ranges of automatic coil winding lines; Mautomatic 300 Evolution, 400, 500, 600 and Mac and two ranges of automatic spool winding lines; Mab 350 and 630. The Mac and B-Mac are the new range of cost-effective, automatic, easy, compact and ready to work coiler and/or spooler. Last year EFAF introduced a new range of fully automatic rewinding lines for a wide range of wooden spools. In semi-automatic cycle it is also possible to process iron spools.

The line may be composed of an SDA 2240 portal pay-off, a dancer, a feeding and winding spool store, a traversing and cutter unit, an AVP or AVPD in case of double take-up and a film wrapping machine. All operations from the feeding of the empty spools up to the packaging with

The Windak CW5 automatic coiler

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Palletising and Pallet handling equipment : palletiser for automatic stacking of spools and coils onto pallets; multiple pallet handling solutions such as conveyors, intersections, lifts and pallet turners. Pay-off & take-ups : stand alone machines or rewind lines including advanced laying units; sizes from: 200mm-3,000mm reel flange diameter – six different models – manual or semiautomatic; other sizes and specifications can be discussed per request. • • • • •

An example of an EFAF automatic coil winding line

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the stretch film are completed automatically. The operator must only position the empty spools on the store and take-off the packaged spool at the end of the line, for a considerable decrease in dead-time. EFAF has recently sold other two automatic rewinding lines to NKT Poland and to Bruno Baldassari & F. lli Spa, Italy, with both customers opting for the version with double take-up.

Windak AB – Sweden Fax : +46 8 580 389 55 Email : info@windak.se Website : www.windak.se

EFAF Srl – Italy Fax : +39 0583 981678 • Email : efaf@efaf.it • Website : www.efaf.it

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EuroWire – January 2007